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(N0 Model.) y 2 SheetS-Sheet 1. W. INGRAH'AM.

GARBURE'I'BR. N0. 569,460. Patented 001:. 13, 1896.

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O. W. INGRAHAM.

GARBURETER.

N0. 569,460. Patented Ost. 13, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES V. INGRAHAM, OF HEPPNER, OREGON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T HARRY W'ARREN, OF SAME PLAGE.

.CARBURETER.

SPECIFIGATION forming part Qf Letters Patent N0. 569,460, dated Oetdber 13, 1896. Application filed Decemter 27,1895. SerialNo. 573,443. (N0 motlel.)

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Be it known that I, CHARLES W. INGRAHAM, a citizen of tl1e Unitecl States, resicling at Heppner, in the county of Morrow a11d State 5 of Oregon, have invented a new a-r1d useful Carbureter, of which tl1e following is a 813601- fication.

This invention relates to gas-generating apparatus ancl it has for its objeot to provide a new and useful apparatus 0f t-l1is oharaoter having simple ancl efficient means for procluoing hydrocarbon gas 01 vapor in sufficient quantities, ancl so combining tl1e same wit-h air to protluoe an intense flamme espeoially 1 5 useful in metallurgioal operations f01 b1azing,

solclering, and the like.

\Vitl1 these ancl other obj ects 111 view, which will reaclily. appe2u a s the nature of the invention is bettet understoocl, the same C011- sists in the 110v01 construction, oombination, ancl arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully desoribed illustra-ted, ancl olaimod.

In tl1e clrawings, Figure 1 is a sicle elevation of a complete gas generating and buming apparatus construoted in aeoorclanee With this invention. Fig. 2 is an enlztrgecl centml vertioal seetional view of the generator. Fig. 3 is 21 horizontal seotional view 011 the line 3 3 0f Fig. 2 Fig. 4 is an enlargecl detail sectional view of oho blowpipe devi0e used in connection with tl1e generator.

Referring to tl1e accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 designates an oil-tank of 2t suitable size, acdorcling t0 the clesirecl cap-aeity 3 5 of the apparatus, saicl tank having fittecl within the upper encl thereof a horizontal partition 2 Whioh separates the interior of the tank into an upper air-chamber 3 and a lower oil-chamber 4:, which is adapted t0 be kept 0 nearly fillecl With 011 that is introclueecl into tl1e t2u1k through the plugged filling-tube 5, projectecl from one sicle o'f the tank. Tl1e tank 1 is furtl1er providecl at 0110 side thereof clirectly below tl1e partition-plate 2 With an 5 offstanding gas-outlet pipe 6, provicled with a stopcook 7, having a handle 8, whicl1 provicles oonvenient means for controlling or cutting 011 the flow of gas through the pipe G,

and clepencling within the oil-tank is a central air-oireulating tube 9.

The eentral air-oirculating tobe 9 is fittecl centrally 2tt its upper end, 2ts ztt 10, to the oenter of tl1e partition-plate 2 ancl communicates With the upper air-ohamber 3 of tl1e tank, ancl tl1e lower encl of tl1e tobe 9 projects 5 5 to a point in close pro:dmity to tl1e bottom of the tztnk 1 to provicle for clirecting the 2theurrents direetly into the 011 at the bottom of the tank. Fittecl 011 the tube 9, 2tncl Within the tztnk 1, is a series 0f parallel cliaplnagms 11, each 013 whieh diaphragms is provicled With a oiroular series 0f ai1 openings 01 perforations 12, which provicle for tl1e ready upwarcl escape of tl1e air forcecl into tl1e 011 through the Cent1al oirculating-tube O.

The diaphragms 11 eure of a cliameter agreeing with the interior diameter of the tank 1, so as to snugly fit within the same, ancl 2L18 centrally perforated, a3 at 13, to snugly reoeive tl1e circulating-tube 9, ancl it Will be observed that certain o1": saicl diaphragmshave the t1l openings 01 perforations 12 thereof disposecl near the central tube 9, while the otl1er cliaphragms alternating' therewith hzwe their air openings 01 perforations 12 clisposed '7 5 near to tl1e sicles of the tank, whereby the ai1 openings 01' perforations of t-he direotly adjaeent diaphragms will be out of alinement to provicle a oircuitous o1 zigzag passage for the air, oompelling the same to pass in a horizontal clirection through the oil between the several cliaphragms before it czm find its escape in an upward clirection.

Tl1e uppermost of tl1e diztphragms 11 is clis posecl within the tank 1 clirectly below the plane of the filling-tube 5, so that all of said diaphragms Will bo submergecl in tl1e oll, ancl direotly above sald uppermost clia-phragms is arrangecl a horizontal clefleoting-plate 14, fittecl at its center 011 tho tube 9 and of a smaller 0 diameter than tl1e cliztphmgms. The hori-. zontal clefiecting-plate 14 se1ves to clefiect the air Whicl1 passes through the air openings 01' perforations in the uppermost cliaphragm in an outwa-rcl clirection t oward the sides of the 5 tank, where lt escapesarouncl the eclges of the ing pipe conneetions respeetively with the my 0wn I have hereto affixed my signature in gas-outlet pipe am]. one 0f the va1ved ends of the presence of two witnesses.

the air-disribuuing tube, and an air-supply T tube connected With 1she oher valved end of CHARLES Il\ GRAHAM' said distributing-tube, subsc-auially as set \Vitnessesz f01th. P. B. MCSWORDS, In testimony filmt I c1aim the foregoing as E. S. KEITHLY. 

